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Ammar al-Saffar

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized... [more]

More than 20 gunmen stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar and abducted him. Al-Saffar's abduction came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized in southern Iraq as well as hostages taken in a mass kidnapping at a Baghdad research institute.

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... Sunday dismissed allegations in a new book by one of the top US investigative reporters that she played politics in 2006 with growing violence in Iraq. ...  
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... War Within" reported the existence of the covert operations and stated that it was the most important of four factors in reducing the violence in Iraq. ...  
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Meanwhile, US General David Petraeus, credited with helping staunch violence in Iraq, will hand over command of US forces there to Lieutenant-General ...  
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Senator Lindsay Graham, who spoke only about commanders-in-chief and America's struggle with its "enemies", and who credited the decline in violence in Iraq ...  
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Iraqis taking advantage of the airlifts here said they had been motivated by the free flights and by reports of diminished violence in Iraq -- Abdel-Jabbar ...  
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... the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Sammara, President Bush witnessed what everyone in the world witnessed -- escalating sectarian violence in Iraq. ...  
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